Improved method of making bands for shingle-bundles



To all` whom 'it may concern tlititcd gratta y Letters Patent No. 92,469,.dated ,July 13, 1869. I

.mrnovnn Mea-Hon o r MAKING BANDS roRsHmGnB-BUNDLES.

' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, JAcoB REEsE, of the city of Pittsburg, in the' county of Allegheny, and, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Imlprovementin Manufacture of Fastenings for Bales and Bundles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference t heilig had to theaccompanying drawing, making part of shingles-'when packed or hound ready for market.

Shingles are now generally put up for market in large bunches or bundles, as shown in iig. 4.

These bunches are secured b wooden bars :t x

placed, one on top, and the other under the bunch, along the line of lap of the shingles. The bunch is compressed, and thin, narrow strips of hoop-iron y y extend from each end ot' onebarx tothe opposite end 'of the otherbar x', the ends ofthe stripsbeing, for

greater security, bent over the ends of the bars andv nailed, asat'y.

These strips y have heretofore been made usually .1' of hoop-iron, by cutting them to the required lengths,

i and then punching the nail-holes.

Instead of making them from hoop-iron, -I cut andv punch them by machinery from thin sheet-iron, whereby I am enabled to make them at about one-half the expense now incurred in their manufacture, and, attl'ie L saine time, produce an article isuiiiciently strongand I durable for the purposes required; and in such mode -of manufacture, and-in the construction of a machine A therefor, consists the nature of my invention.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and niode of operation.

By sheet-rolls, of the ordinary or any known construction, I roll out sheet-iron, either in single sheets, oriu packs of, say, six sheets, the latter being the most rapid and perfectly practicable, and then cut or shear such sheet-iron crossways, or across thedirection of the grain of the iron, into smaller sheets, equal in width to the length ofthe strips y to be made.

Each of these smaller sheets may be out across in the opposite direction, so as? to divide them still more,

` for convenience of handling, if so desired, but their klengths usually made. -be cnt and. punched into strips y.

widthshould remain equal to the length of the desired strips y, say twelve or fifteen inches, these being the Such sheets are then ready to For such cutting and punching, I use a machine shown in figs. 1 and?, f being a suitable bed or foundation, and g being plumber-blocks, on which theaxle h operates.

On this axle is a canin', which actuates the arm an', which extends back from therocking knife-block fm.

This,knifeblock has a rocking motion on axle-pins or journals o, inserted in its opposite sides, through. the u rights f', and held in place ,by caps o.

ear the front of the frame is a T- shaped slot, a.

Over this slot, by T head bolts c placed therein, and secured by nuts c', a cutter-block, b, is secured.

To this is bolted a stationary cutter, b.

'lhe cutter-block b, at thepoints where the T- head bolts c pass through, is so slotted as to be adjustable, and such adjustment is eiected by set-screw s (l, which pass through the front of the fra-'me f.

To the'front of the rocking knife-block m 1s bolted a knife, u, and the 'stationary cutter b is so adjusted, by set-screws d, that the two knives shall operate conjointly, and shear the blanks or strips from thesheetmetal.

"Back of the knife u is fasteneda gauge, n', the lower at every stroke, punch the number of holes required in each end of each strip y. l

'In the stationary cutter b', immediately under the points of the r punches s, are punching-holes s', through whicbthe pu'nchings pass down, and out at the mortises s" below; The stationary cutter b thus becomes apunching-block.

The cutter b is so made that the position of one or both the punches s may be changed, to punch Ythe ends of -strips of different lengths. Illustrative of this, are the punching-holes and mortise shown at lr.

The operation of the machine is, then, as follows:

The small sheet-*iron sheets, cut as described, of a width, in the direction of the grain of the iron, equal to the length of the strip y to be made, are fed in between the cutters b" fn., against theI gauge An. The cam vi, on the axle h, as it comes against the arm m', gives the knife n a downward throw, cutting onev strip y oti the edge of the sheet, and the punches s punching the nail-holes u in the sheet of the lnext strip y. Thereturn 0r upward stroke of the knife u is secured by a spring, z, which is connected by a cord or chain, z', with a hook, 2f', on the end of the arm on. Thus, with each stroke of the knife a, I deliver a strip, y, complete. v They are then packed in bundles or kegs, or

must be used, each bar or strip `must be rolled sepa-l rately, and the iron cannot safely be rolled thinner than to a certain gauge; but by rolling sheet-iron in packs,

I roll it ont more rapidly,and toa thinner gauge than can be done in rolling hoop-iron, saving (time, labor, expense, and material, and, at the same time, am enabled to use a less costly quality of iron, and still secure, in the manufactured lstrip y, all the'reqnired strength and durability.

By this mode of manuiiletnre, I am able Jo effect a savingin the first cost of about one half. t

Metallic strips, made substantially as described, are

iuseful for other purposes,'or for securinglbundlesand i y bales of other articles, and all such uses ofsuch stripsw f .I include in ,my invention.v n

. I` d notclaim rolling sheets of metal in packs, norm do I claim cutting strips transversely, `as above described, since each by itself is a common mechanical practice; but y ,l i; What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi i l f 1. Amacline-cut and vpunched shingle-strip or bale- 1 fastening, made substantially in the manner described, y from sheetas distinguished from hoop-imm f 2.- I The combination, shb'stantiallyasdescribed, ofthe 3 l vibratory cutter n, gauge n', and adjustable punchess i s, with the stationary cutter b', provided with holes s" s', for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.;

In testimony whereof, 1, the said J AooB Bansin?have` i l l hereunto set my hand. y

JACOB" V Witnesses:

\ A. S. N IcHoLsoN. y i J G. H. CHRISTY. l l 

